Episodes

Sunday Sep 25, 2022
HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.

Sunday Sep 11, 2022
HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.

Sunday Jul 17, 2022
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.

Sunday Apr 24, 2022
HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.

Sunday Apr 10, 2022
HoP 394 - Best of Both Worlds - Tycho Brahe
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Responses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho Brahe.

Sunday Mar 27, 2022
HoP 393 - The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You - Copernicus
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?

Sunday Nov 07, 2021
HoP 383 - Slowly But Surely - Huldrych Zwingli
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
The Swiss theologian Zwingli launches the Reformation in Switzerland, but clashes with Luther and more radical Protestants.

Sunday Jun 20, 2021
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.

Sunday Jun 06, 2021
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.

Sunday Mar 28, 2021
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?

Sunday Jan 03, 2021
HoP 363 - Man of Discoveries - Girolamo Cardano
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.

Sunday Dec 06, 2020
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.

Sunday Apr 07, 2019
HoP 322 - Do the Math - Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.

Sunday Mar 25, 2018
HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
Sunday Mar 25, 2018
Sunday Mar 25, 2018
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.

Sunday Jun 04, 2017
HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
Sunday Jun 04, 2017
Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.